{"id":1150,"date":"2018-11-01T14:36:35","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T14:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.edozoume.gr\/2018\/11\/01\/shielding-endangered-species-and-habitats\/"},"modified":"2018-11-01T16:11:23","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T16:11:23","slug":"shielding-endangered-species-and-habitats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edozoume.gr\/en\/shielding-endangered-species-and-habitats\/","title":{"rendered":"Shielding endangered species and habitats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Species Action Plans are one of the most important tools in the conservation of biological diversity. One of the main objectives of LIFE-IP 4 NATURA is the development and legal adoption of Action Plans (Aps) for species and habitats of Community Interest.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1678 size-400\" src=\"http:\/\/edozoume.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DSC_0577-400x267.jpg\" alt=\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To that end, MEEN organized 7 workshops with experts and beneficiary representatives and a list of species and habitats has already been finalised.<\/p>\n<p>The selection was based on a list of specific criteria:<\/p>\n<p>a) priority species\/habitats in Europe that are included in the EU Nature Directives and the Greek PAF,<\/p>\n<p>b) current conservation status and conservation priority, present threats and pressures,<\/p>\n<p>c) current knowledge on the species biology and detailed knowledge on the range and distribution of the species\/habitat on a national level,<\/p>\n<p>d) provisional cost for the implementation of the APs,<\/p>\n<p>e) possibility for achieving measurable conservation results from the implementation of the APs over a five-year period, taking also into account cost efficiency and feasibility criteria.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1681 size-400\" src=\"http:\/\/edozoume.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DSC_1105_-400x266.jpg\" alt=\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The species and habitats included are:<\/p>\n<table width=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"236\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Group<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"387\">\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Species<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"236\">Habitats<\/td>\n<td width=\"387\">\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">2,250 Coastal sand dunes with <em>Juniperus<\/em> spp.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"236\">Flora<\/td>\n<td width=\"387\">\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Silene holzmannii<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"236\">Invertebrates<\/td>\n<td width=\"387\">\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Parnassius apollo<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"236\">Inland freshwater fishes<\/td>\n<td width=\"387\">\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00b7 <em>Salmo lourosensis, Salmo macedonicus, Salmo farioides, Salmo pelagonicus, Salmo peristericus<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00b7 <u><em>Ladigesocypris ghigii<\/em><\/u><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"236\">Amphibians and reptiles<\/td>\n<td width=\"387\">\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00b7 <em>Pelophylax cerigensis<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00b7 <u><em>Caret<\/em><\/u><em><u>t<\/u><\/em><em><u>a care<\/u><\/em><em><u>t<\/u><\/em><em><u>ta<\/u><\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"236\">Birds<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\" width=\"387\"><em>Gyps fulvus<\/em>, <em>Gypaetus barbatus<\/em>, <em>Aegypius monachus<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"236\">Land mammals<\/td>\n<td width=\"387\">\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00b7 <em>Rupicapra rupicapra balkanica<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00b7 <u><em>Ursus arctos<\/em><\/u><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"236\">Cetacean<\/td>\n<td width=\"387\">\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00b7 <u><em>Phocoena phocoena<\/em><\/u><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00b7 <em><u>T<\/u><\/em><em><u>ursiops truncatus<\/u><\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"236\">Marine mammals<\/td>\n<td width=\"387\">\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><u><em>Monachus monachus<\/em><\/u><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><em>*For the species that are underlined, there are Action Plans already drafted in the past which will be updated.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A specification document which defines in detail the APs\u2019 structure was also prepared and delivered to MEEN, which will undertake all the steps necessary towards the legal approval of the APs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Species Action Plans are one of the most important tools in the conservation of biological diversity. One of the main objectives of LIFE-IP 4 NATURA is the development and legal adoption of Action Plans (Aps) for species and habitats of Community Interest. The species and habitats included are: Group Species Habitats 2,250 Coastal sand dunes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edozoume.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edozoume.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edozoume.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edozoume.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edozoume.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edozoume.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edozoume.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edozoume.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edozoume.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edozoume.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}